Bermuda College covers the island in community service

Bermuda College will be demonstrating its community college philosophy this week as faculty, staff and students spread out over the Island for the annual Community Service Day. Nearly 70 employees and students will spend three hours in the afternoon assisting various charitable organisations as they serve the community. Tasks of sorting clothes to sorting files, cooking food to washing pots, cleaning utility closets and kitchen cupboards to cleaning windows ...it will be three hours of willing service over the next three days.

Coordinator of the event, Mrs. Emma Williams, who normally greets College visitors at the Information Desk, will herself be gardening, painting or talking with the residents at the Packwood Home in Sandys on Tuesday. She says her job of coordinating the community service schedule for the College gets easier each year.  "People's willingness to help makes my job a pleasure," she said. Now in the third year of the initiative, the number of organisations assisted has grown, and some have begun to anticipate the calendar event and call ahead of time.

Charities assisted in the three-day event this year,  include the Salvation Army Thrift Shop; the Women's Resource Centre; Meals on Wheels; Lefroy House; S.T.A.R.; Lorraine Rest Home; the Packwood Home; Sunny Vale Nursing Home; the Matilda Smith Williams Seniors Residence; and beautification of the College campus itself.